Bairbre de Brún became the first person to address the European Parliment in Irish today following the decision to make Irish a working language. About EU has all the details including the speech text. I didn’t think anyone was allowed to use Irish in the EP just yet, I thought it wasn’t coming in to [...]

What some people have campaigned hard for has finally come true, the EU have today made Irish an official working language of the EU with effect from 2007. Below is a press release from Dháithí Mac Cárthaigh, Chonradh na Gaeilgereceived via Gaeilge-B… Edit: Slugger readers have their say … some of the usual suspects with [...]